Arts and Humanities

Everyday Resistance to Slavery Far More Common than Believed
By today's standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day's work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night or learning to read and write may seem to be pretty tame infractions. But for slaves in the American south such activities were dangerous, daring and far more common than previously believed.
Closer to Freedom
—University of Washington

'Seven Against Thebes' - Winning the American West, Latin Style
The Latin epic that influenced a Japanese film classic and a Hollywood Western now has a more modern voice, thanks to a Purdue University English professor. The "Thebiad also provides an apt analogue to the famous Japanese film "The Seven Samurai" and the Hollywood film that imitated it, the 1960s Western "Magnificent Seven."
Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
—Purdue University

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Ukraine Election Monitoring Team Returning Home
The University of Alberta houses the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies, which organized the Ukraine Transparency and Election Monitoring Project. Dr. James Jacuta headed up the UTEMP project in Ukraine. He is arriving home in Canada tonight from Kyiv.
—University of Alberta

Scientific Answers to Theoretical, Philosophical Questions About Soul
The phrase “don’t speak ill of the dead” appears to be more than just good manners. UA psychology professor Jesse Bering has been working on a series of experiments that show people tend to upgrade their valuations of another person when they think that person has died.
Human Nature, 2005
—University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Avoid Those Holiday ‘Gimmes’
The gift giving that usually accompanies the holiday season can be a wonderful time for friends and family, but for many parents, holiday gift giving can be a struggle of wills with their children. By setting limits this season, you can teach your children there’s more to the holidays than gifts.
—University of Michigan Health System

Disaster Plans Lacking for People with Disabilities
Researchers investigating 30 random communities across the nation found only 40 percent of emergency managers had specific guidelines in place to assist people with mobility impairments during emergencies.
—University of Kansas

Undertreatment Spurs Arrests Among Drug Offenders Diverted Under CA’s Prop. 36
A new study reports higher arrest rates among drug offenders diverted to treatment during the first six months of California’s Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act, commonly known as Proposition 36. (Embargo expired on 26-Nov-2004 at 03:10 ET)
Criminology and Public Policy, Nov-2004
—University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Book Compiles Scholarly Perspectives on Clinton Presidency
Eleven of the nation’s top political scientists and historians gathered at the University of Arkansas in 2002 to examine the Clinton presidency from their own viewpoints. Their overwhelming consensus was the perfect title of the resulting compilation of papers — “The Clinton Riddle.”
The Clinton Riddle
—University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Data Support Americans’ Sense of an Accelerating “Time Warp”
While the U.S. work week, or hours spent working for pay by the average employee, has not significantly changed over the past 30 years, the demands of work and family are certainly colliding.
Contexts
—American Sociological Association (ASA)

Christmas Continues to Be a Dickens of a Holiday
No matter how flashy the holiday season gets, the Victorian-era spirit of Charles Dickens will always be present, says a Purdue University English professor.
—Purdue University

Education

Prof Targets Student Cheats with Statistical Savvy
Final exams are just around the corner at universities nationwide, and with them the ever-present challenge of student cheating. But this year, a professor at California State University, Sacramento has prepared a new device to assist his colleagues.
J. of College Teaching and Learning, Sep-2004
—California State University, Sacramento

Pop Culture

Civility Expert Can Discuss Foul Behavior of Athletes and Fans
In the wake of last week's NBA player-fan brawl, the co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project can discuss incivility in American society.
—Johns Hopkins University

World Will Never be Seen Same Again Because of Network Anchor Departures
The world as Americans have been seeing it will never be the same again -- not because of some conflict, but because nightly news anchors from two of the biggest networks are stepping down. So claims a professor of electronic media at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.
—Dick Jones Communications

The Media and the Iraq War to be Assessed at UCSD
News coverage of the war in Iraq will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 4:30 p.m. Participants will include a top journalism educator, a leading television national security producer and a highly respected newspaper editorial director. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held at The Weaver Center of the Institute of the Americas on the UCSD campus.
—University of California, San Diego